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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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1 have assembled a small group to begin looking seriously at the several policy questions as well as the practical options. T h e graduate deans, deans of engineering, representatives from the basic medical sciences and from electrical engineering, and the dean of agriculture are working in cooperation with Vice President Yankwich and Vice President Brady to explore how we can strengthen our activity in this area and enhance support for research and development while at the same time making a stronger contribution to revitalization of the economy. 1 have asked the group to function as an informal advisory group to the president and to the chancellors, to explore the opportunities for more creative and productive relations with industry, and to share ideas and coordinate our approach to this poorly charted but apparently promising area. Reorganization of the College of Medicine In still another area, the University of Illinois College of Medicine launched the celebration of its 100th anniversary on October 1, 1981, with a symposium. Perhaps it is appropriate that in this its 100th year, the college has also reassessed its internal academic organization and its long-range plans. On Wednesday, October 7, the proposed reorganization of the College of Medicine was recommended to the senate of the Medical Center by the Educational Policy Committee and approved by the senate. In my comments before the senate at the Medical Center on October 7, I noted that the responsibility to revise the curriculum and organize a college was a faculty matter, not the job of the president. I suggested to the senate, however, seven qualities I would look for — and believed this Board of Trustees would look for — in any reorganization plan that came before the board for final approval. These are the following: 1. It must continue the commitment to regional medical education. 2. The funding implications must be equitable among the four locations and realistic overall. 3. There must be provision for the Medical Scholars Program. 4. The plan must emphasize quality rather than size at all locations. 5. It must cut administrative layers and costs. 6. We must provide for appropriate local control. 7. We must end up with a single College of Medicine capable of self governance with appropriate participation from all segments of the college. I believe the reorganization plan adopted by the Medical Center Senate meets these tests. A more detailed set of principles has been developed under the leadership of Chancellor Begando, a copy of which is before you (see page 394). I would intend to incorporate those principles in the recommendation I will bring to the board at the appropriate time following senate actions. Thus, if any member of the board has any question in regard to any of these principles, we need to know this since we believe the plan to be founded on these fundamental principles. The principles reaffirm the commitment to regional medical education; note that if conditions change, the organization of the college can again undergo review; that each program component will receive equitable funding; that there will be a stable cohort of students at each site; that the Community Health Centers will be maintained; that the required clerkships needed for the third year students in the Medical Scholars Program will be offered in Urbana-Champaign; that the administrative structure of the college will be simplified; that there will be appropriate local control in the regions; that a single College of Medicine will be preserved; and that matters of curriculum will continue to be vested, as specified in the University of Illinois Statutes, in the faculty of the college. There remains a need for the Urbana-Champaign Senate to review the proposed reorganization. Also, in establishing the School of Basic Medical Sciences at Urbana-Champaign on July 22, 1970, the Board of Trustees provided that the